Originally Posted by Vyper
Irrelevant, most addons are not liscenced under the GPL.
Furthermore: They were not redistributing them, they were using WoWI to do that. If they were redistributing addons, then there wouldn't be people here crying that WoWM was broken because it would still be working just fine.
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Lemme just do a recap of my addons
Cartographer3 (GPL)
BigWigs (CC-NonCommercial)
IceHud (none)
oRA2 (deprecated/none)
Now, acording to
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...02301679&sid=1
The arbirtrary body we are abbiding to:
addons must be free of charge.
code must be completely visible.
Now
The ones without licence have dependency on ACE2/3
Thus inerhereting the LGPL v2.1 + MIT for AceOO-2.0
Since the no charge is in effect and all code is visible it can not charge any fee for the add on, any addon that use is based or mere link to ACE3 is GPL in itself or the author is in VIOLATION of GPL.. and then the addon is the violation.
But why are we hung on Author/developer distribution..
When the sole problem is the LACK of WoWInterface and Curse to do a simple and very very simple thingy
Its called "RSS"
Everyone does nowadays.
The Curse website has the right to distribute by ANY MEANS..
So a very simple
Developer > uploads to curse/WOWINterface > RSS Creates > WoWMatrix Parses RSS > User Download..
Simple? yes, are we all happy? yes we are (WE USERS, WE DEVELOPERS)
Do anyone visit the website using this method? Absolutely, I've aways went to "Visit Curse/WowInterface" link on wowmatrix, because DEVELOPERS Make ****ty TOC's!!! Description sux.
Its not wowmatrix faults for the descriptions, so I went there too to see screenshots and such..
But why do the RIGHT Thing? lets do the one that fills our pocket with money from bystanders.
Wait, is premium free?? Or am I paying you to not show the very same ad that makes you money, I guess would be wrong for you to charge people and still show some ads isn't it?